Course Reflection

There were a lot of readings this semester for class, but there were two particular one's that really caught my attention. One was a recent reading Animals for Food by David DeGrazia and the other article was not to long ago also and that was Ralph Acampora's article Zoo's And Eyes: Contesting Captivity And Seeking Successor Practices. The reason why I chose David DeGrazia's article was because I felt as though he broke everything down into detail from the caged hens to talking about traditional family farming. I like how he gets into great detail of the process the hens go through when they lay their eggs. He described "She is taken to a 'battery' cage made entirely of wire and quite unlike the outdoor conditions that are natural for her where she will live her life" (DeGrazia 219). Just reading this quote I felt like wow our eggs we eat in the morning is someone elses child. The next article by Ralph Acampora was interesting like David's but it was a little comical as to the comparison he is making in the reading. The comparison he made was pornography to animal treatment at the zoo. He gives some detail on his reasoning to compare the two things. He said "The broad analogy between zoos and pornography is useful because , if it holds true in the relevant respects (also I argue it does), the comparison casts a new and decidedly critical light on the debate over keeping and breeding animals in the wild in captivity (as well as shifting the balance of concern to include effects on human spectators)" (Acampora 502). I thought it was good to explain what he meant about the comparison of animals in zoos to pornography. With information from both authors I actually questioned my beliefs myself.
Keeping the readings in mind and trying to memorize the text a little bit helped me figure out how to put things together in the proper fashion. Being as though I read a lot of the articles it helped me with how I wrote, as far as, detailing more and coming up with a stronger thesis.